[mythtv-users] Watching recorded files on another computer?

Dave Johansen davejohansen at gmail.com
Sat May 9 20:48:24 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/05/2009, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am recording OTA ASTC channels and I was wondering if it is possible
>>  to copy the recorded .mpg files to another computer (a Windows
>>  machine) and watch the files?
>>
>>  I actually tried doing it, but Windows Media Player says that it can't
>>  "play that type of file". The machine will play DVDs and also has a
>>  tuner card that watches OTA ATSC, so I don't understand what's going
>>  wrong. Any ideas?
>
> If you're copying the raw recording, you are likely be trying to play
> a MPEG2 transport stream (TS), so you'll need a TS-aware player - VLC
> should be fine for this.
>
> You could also try running MythTV Player (although not sure if it's
> still stable for latest 0.21-fixes) which will connect directly to
> your backend and play the files on your Windows box. There are details
> of the player on the wiki.
>
> Nick

The machine actually doesn't have acess to the backend that I'm
copying from, but it sounds like the VLC route wil work. Thanks for
the info.
Dave


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